Chaetostoma species?

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 13 Oct 2004, 00:18

I just bought this wild-caught (Peru) from my LFS.
Some kind of Chaetostoma sp?

Alex

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 13 Oct 2004, 00:22

Gold coin to those of you who would have guessed that WITHOUT a picture

Heres one, not the best but the catfish ain't really settled in yet, so best so far.

mallemalle · Post by **mallemalle** » 13 Oct 2004, 00:25

looks like a male L-276

Malle

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 13 Oct 2004, 06:10

HI!

Yes I agree with malle...
really strange looking species!!

Cheers
Yann

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 13 Oct 2004, 15:06

Looks like it

How can i sex it?
How large do they grow?
Where can i read a little bit about 'em?

mallemalle · Post by **mallemalle** » 13 Oct 2004, 16:03

the females dont have that much red in them, just a bit on the tail i belive.

malle

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 13 Oct 2004, 16:36

Any chance of better pics? I'd love to add this fellow to the cat-elog as I haven't any pictures of him.

Jools

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 13 Oct 2004, 20:27

Will do a photo shoot right away

Can't promise you a better picture today, but i can promise you one.

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 13 Oct 2004, 20:47

Can't find the little bugger

But I'll promise you a shot when i spot him.

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 15 Oct 2004, 20:01

Heres a better picture, but the speciment ain't healthy

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 15 Oct 2004, 20:52

Heres another one, still sick though

T · Post by T » 17 Oct 2004, 12:56

Poor guy is he eating, are you treating the disease?

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 17 Oct 2004, 17:23

Of course. He was eating yesterday, but now i won't feed him again untill wednesday because of the medication.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 29 Oct 2004, 15:57

Obliviou$ wrote:Heres a better picture, but the speciment ain't healthy

Thanks for posting the pics, I've added them to the cat-elog and would appreciate a few updated pics when the disease clears up.

Cheers,

Jools

Obliviou$ · Post by **Obliviou$** » 03 Nov 2004, 16:25

Jools wrote:
Obliviou$ wrote:Heres a better picture, but the speciment ain't healthy
Thanks for posting the pics, I've added them to the cat-elog and would appreciate a few updated pics when the disease clears up.

Cheers,

Jools

Sorry, he didn't make it. When I started with the medications i turned the temp. up to 30*c and the Chetostoma and 3 killis passed away. But the rest survived. Including all my other catfish; 5 C. Aeneus, 1 Dekeyseria L052 and 1 Ancistrus doli.

Post by **Silurus** » 03 Nov 2004, 16:36

I know the standard cure for ich involves raising the temperature, but Chaetostoma do very poorly at such elevated temperatures, especially when they are weakened by disease.

My Chaetostoma had ich before, and it went away without my medicating or raising the temperature (it was feeding normally prior to getting the disease). It finally died in an unrelated heater accident.

DeepFriedIctalurus · Post by **DeepFriedIctalurus** » 05 Nov 2004, 08:47

Silurus wrote:I know the standard cure for ich involves raising the temperature, but Chaetostoma do very poorly at such elevated temperatures, especially when they are weakened by disease.

My Chaetostoma had ich before, and it went away without my medicating or raising the temperature (it was feeding normally prior to getting the disease). It finally died in an unrelated heater accident.

Out of over a dozen Chaetostoma I've tried taking home, only 1 survived past the ich/food refusal stage. Then my luck has it die of what I assume to be viral lymphocystis a couple months later. Of course only a scant few actually didn't get ich, but I also wasn't using the small amount of salt that I am today (teaspoon per 10g at most) in my quarantine tank.. That's helped me alot w/ some other types of fish recently, but for meds I've found aquarium products' quick cure to be excellent when it comes down to that.

Hope you find more Oblivious, definately a good lookin fish!

Tyler